We were a bit surprised when Apple announced the release of Safari 5. We hadn’t heard rumors about the new version, or the features that it contained. This update is not just simply a rehash of the previous version of Safari, though. It includes all new features and some never-before-seen things that make Safari 5.0 our favorite little browser on the Mac.

If you’ve had restless nights wondering what Google plans to do with the VP8 video codec since it purchased creator On2, wonder no more: The search giant has announced a new, open video format for the web built around the technology.

Opera Mini, the free web browser for iPhone and iPod Touch from
Norwegian developer Opera Software ASA, offers quicker browsing than
Safari, though Safari may offer a more usable experience, according to a
recent Lifehacker post.

It's an age-old problem. You left home thinking you had saved the most
recent version of a document to your flash drive or to your MobileMe
account, but when you access it at work your "blah blah blah"
placeholders are where your charts should be.

The meeting's in
ten minutes. What do you do? Recreate the missing charts from memory?
You wish. Luckily, FeelHome's got your back.

While it's easy enough to game browsers to score well on specific kinds
of tests, the latest pre-alpha release of Opera 10.5 runs JavaScript
not just faster than every other browser out there -- it eats every
other browsers' lunch and dinner.